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Synopsis:
load oldping
Description:
This is a script version of the now-ubiquitous CTCP PING command. It is
necessary when dealing with other clients that are particularly old, or
that do not otherwise support CTCP PING (but do support other CTCP
commands). It works by sending the ping message in a CTCP ERRMSG, which
most clients will reply to. It otherwise works just like PING, except
the command is /oping.
See Also:
ctcp(1); load(5); ping(1)
Other Notes:
This script has been contributed to by numerous people. Credit for the
original idea goes to Robey Pointer (Robey), robey@netcom.com, with some
inspiration from Klaus Zeuge (sojge), sojge@minsk.docs.uu.se, and
Nicolas Pioch (Nap), pioch@poly.polytecnique.fr. Some credit also goes
to Peter Hellmonds (snoopy), hellmond@phoenix.princeton.edu. Ian
Frechette (Daemon), frechett@spot.colorado.edu, made the necessary
modifications for it to run under ircII 2.2pre6. Further modifications
have been made by Jeremy Nelson (hop), jnelson@acronet.net, for EPIC.